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So this contract has a disparagement clause that would prevent saying it was signed before 2020 or that they're obligated to fulfill the terms because that would damage sales, but at the same time it allows Goodman to repeatedly take to video to talk about how reprehensible the Bledshaws are...

I had a really memorable character in Weird Frontiers, the weird west DCC offshoot. I rolled 4 for STR, but otherwise ok stats. Why would they have such a low strength? It came to me: Because they're old! So I created Old Sally. (Pronounced "ole" held out long and with a western twang.) She was...

If you really want a history of TTRPGs, that would be the ultimate IMHO. When I was making my meager and now embarrassing contributions in the 80s, there were no contracts for authors, not even a terms of service. You just sent stuff and technically, you were paying her to print your "zine."...

I wish they'd died before they got old.

The Bledshaw JG kickstarter is so old that it predates 5E. It was being done in a similar fashion to how Goodman does things, one house version "JG Universal" and one of the dominant D20 RPG which at the time was still Pathfinder 1.

Facebook is worse. A lot worse.

The nastiest stuff, not surprisingly, is on Facebook. I was told I was a fat cat lady. I was told I needed to post a shelfie because it was obvious I didn't play RPGs. While the fat cat lady may be accurate, I was tempted to posein front of my Goodman shelves while holding my white box. But...

From Goodman's social media, I am absolutely certain they have attracted a new and quite unpleasant audience. It's really brought out the creepy-crawlers. I would really not feel comfortable anymore sitting down at a DCC table at a convention.

I wrote a big blog post comparing roll20 and Foundry. My preference is definitely Foundry and my conclusion was Foundry is better for something you're serious about making work with full bells and whistles, but roll20 is easier to "wing it." Owlbear would be even easier to wing it, but kind of...

https://www.superlawyers.com/resources/consumer-law/washington/can-i-sue-when-kickstarter-fails-to-deliver/ https://www.michiganitlaw.com/Fraudulent-Kickstarter-Campaign-Legal-Action

Courts have found companies liable for delivery. The problem is that suing to get your money is far more expensive than just eating the $40. But no, you can't just engage in fraud and put up a sign that says "we don't actually guarantee that anything we say is true or you'll get anything" and...

I'm one of the backers. I'd rather have kept Goodman Games as a company I'd be willing to do business with than get my long-lost $40 back. In some ways it's worse because the Bledshaws arguably engaged in fraud and they're being relieved of that plus got to keep the money. Because that money...

We discussed the whole thing briefly before our game last night and nobody else knew the full story or exactly how extreme the Bledshaws are.

If they're not reprinting the original, then a lot of the "historical preservation" stuff is really out the window. It's kind of the whole point and I think the OAR concept is pretty fantastic in theory. You get the original. There's a lot of essays that give you context about why this was...

This. Also, if this follows the same format and I assume it will, there's a full reprint of the original and a bunch of commentary as well as the adapted updated version. And I would be all over this. Except for the nazi thing. I can't do that.

Didn't the refund thing through Goodman happen after a week of Goodman getting shellacked by criticisms? Before then, it was going to the Bledshaws. And yeah, they said they would use the money for refunds, but they said that before Tegel Manor as well and did not follow through.

The thing is that they supposedly signed this confidential agreement after doing business with the Bledshaws had already gotten them into trouble with their customers (and everyone else decent). Why would they ever agree to sign something that would leave them unable to defend themselves after...

That's the Bledshaws. Concerning Judges Guild look at the Facebook post by Bledshaw. He's some kind of Identity Christian. This is stuff that was out before GG started this project in 2022.

Oh the make money. If you want to make money find another business than TTRPGs. "Oh yeah after that blowup with 'Eisenhower and Truman being secret Jews, but Jesus was a gentile and the Jews stole the Bible from white people' we thought it would be a great idea to sign contracts with...

Shadowdark is basically old school with modern systems.